We performed a comparison between PRTG Network Monitor and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The remote probes are very useful. They allow us to provide a reference across different areas in the network. In trying to localize issues, that's very useful."
"The most valuable feature is the notifications. As long as you spend time and think about what and when you want to be notified, it's always accurate. It is always there. I find things out before my Internet provider."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to span multiple technologies and multiple vendors."
"There is a simplicity to setting up the extra sensors. It's really easy for us to build infrastructure and start monitoring very quickly."
"It helps the entire organization become digitally enabled."
"It has made our infrastructure more reliable."
"It is able to satisfy all our requirements in terms of email notifications and specific errors on the devices."
"I found PRTG Network Monitor very useful for troubleshooting and monitoring the utilization of either the network or server."
"The flexibility of the solution is quite good."
"It provides a risk score for each object, device, or user. We can then take action if they are at a higher risk."
"Our clients are easily able to modify and evolve their implementations."
"There are quite a lot of things that we find useful. Splunk agents are useful and good. Its UI is quite impressive."
"Its dashboard is valuable. If you have a good knowledge of how to create a dashboard, you can create any dashboard related to cybersecurity. If fine-tuned, the alarms that are triggered for instant review are also very valuable and useful."
"The solution is the market leader."
"it can explain to management about what kind of traffic is visiting the network. It can also explain other traffic coming in and out, along with protecting against malware."
"The solution has made us more secure."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Its price can be better. Its price is a problem for us because it is in dollars, and there is a high conversion rate. In terms of new features, it can have BGP monitoring. It should also have a dashboard and maps editor."
"The solution has to evolve as an end-to-end monitoring solution. It has to do better at understanding the application at the deepest level."
"The clustering aspect needs improvement, as there is a bit of confusion about you do when hit that 5000 probe mark."
"Maybe in the future there will be room for improvement, but currently, there is nothing pressing that I can think of"
"PRTG Network Monitor could improve the price."
"Needs ability to monitor standard notification time (notify after X time)."
"More training videos for installing and configuring this software would have been nice, especially when working with a lot of devices."
"I would like a more straightforward ability to create dashboards and maps. The network maps should be a bit more flexibility in the GUI to do what we need to do."
"AngularJS/ReactJS inclusion could be made easier in GUI."
"While there aren't any major areas where the solution has to be improved, there are certain integrations that are still not available. I would specifically like to see legacy applications integrated."
"Writing queries is a bit complicated sometimes."
"They should make data onboarding easier."
"I would like to see an updated dashboard. The dashboard is a little out-of-date. It could be made prettier."
"It's difficult to set up initially, and their billing model is also a bit complicated."
"Better directions on search head clusters."
"It currently has limited default rules and customizations. If they can concentrate more on the compliance part and the security information part, it would be helpful. The platform part is good, but it requires many features from the security aspect."
PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 228 reviews. PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk Enterprise Security writes "It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query ". PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Elastic Security.
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